FOUR-COURSE GUITAR BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Michael Craddock and Michael Fink

Printed Music Sources

154614 Mudarra, Alonso, Tres libros de Música . . .

15492 Barberiis, Melchiore de, Opera Intitolata Contina . . .

[1550]2 Morlaye, Guillaume, Tablature de guiterne . . .

15511 Gorlier, Simon, Le Troysieme Livre . . . De Guiterne . . .

15513 Le Roy, Adrian, Premier Livre de Tablature de Guiterre . . .

[1551]4 Le Roy, Adrian, Briefve et facile instruction pour apprende la tablature a bien accorder, conduire et disposer la main sur la guiterne

15523 Le Roy, Adrian, Tiers Livre . . . De Guiterre . . .

15525 Morlaye, Guillaume, Le Premier Livre . . . De Guiterne . . .

15526 Morlaye, Guillaume, Quatriesme Livre . . . De Guyterne & . . . De la Cistre . . .

15533 Brayssing, Gregoire, Quart Livre . . . De Guiterre . . .

15534 Morlaye, Guillaume, Le Second Livre . . . De Guiterne . . .

15543 Fuenllana, Miguel de, Libro de Musica Para Vihuela . . .

15544 Le Roy, Adrian, Cinquiesme Livre de Guiterre . . .

15568 Le Roy, Adrian, Second Livre de Guiterre . . .

[1568]9 Rowbotham, James (ed.), The breffe and playne instruction to lerne to play on the gyttron and also the cetterne (8 pages found, 4 in reprinted Ward 1983)

[156?]2 Gorlier, Simon, Livre de Tablature de Guiterne . . .

15704 Phalèse, P. and Bellère, J. (eds.), Selectissima in Guiterna Ludenda Carmina ...

[1573]7 Phalèse, P. and Bellère, J. (eds.), Selectissima carmina ludenda in Quinterna ...

[158?]3 Giuliani, [Girolamo], Intavolature de chitara . . .

1601 Cerreto, Scipione, Della Prattica musicale . . .

1645 Conserto vago [for theorbo, lute, and chitarrino]

Manuscript Sources

B:Bc MS.24.135 (early 17th century – a few pieces)

F:Pm Rés. 44.108(6) (early 17th century)

GB:Lbm Stowe 389 (1558) “Ralph Bowles MS” (1 fragment, transcribed in Ward (1983))

GB:Lbm Add.MS.30513 (c. 1570) (Mulliner) (2 pieces and 1 fragment for gittern, transcribed in Stevens (1952)

GB:Lam (ex-Spencer, ca. 1620; photocopy available from LSA)

US:Yale Osborn Music MS 13 (ca.1560, transcribed in Ward (1983); available from LSA)

Facsimiles and Modern Editions

Brayssing, Gregoire. Sechs Fantasien für di vierchörige Gitarre aus “Quart livre de tabulature de Guiterre”Paris 1553, facsimiles and guitar notation of selected pieces, ed. Helmut Mönkmeyer. Celle: Moeck Verlag, ©1989.

Fuenllana, Miguel de. Libro de Música para Vihuela intitulado Orphenica lyra … (1554), facsimile edition. Geneva: Éditions Minkoff, 1981.

______. Orphenica lyra (Seville, 1554), transcr., ed., and transl. by Charles Jacobs. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1977.

______. Sämtliche Werke für die vierchörige Gitarre aus “Libro de musica para Vihuela intitulado Orphenica lyra” Seville 1554, facsimiles and guitar notation, ed. Helmut Mönkmeyer. Celle: Moeck Verlag, ©1984.

Gorlier, Simon. Ausgewählte Werke für di vierchörige Gitarre aus “Le troysieme livre”Paris 1551, facsimiles and guitar notation of selected pieces, ed. Helmut Mönkmeyer. Celle: Moeck Verlag, ©1989.

______, and Morlaye, Guillaume. Four Guitar Books (1551-1553), facsimile edition, ed. James Tyler. Monaco: Éditions Chanterelle S.A., 1980.

Le Roy, Adrian. Ausgewählte Werke für di vierchörige Gitarre aus “Premiere livre de tabulature de guiterre” Paris 1551, facsimiles and guitar notation of selected pieces, ed. Helmut Mönkmeyer. Celle: Moeck Verlag, ©1989.

______, and Ballard, Robert. Five Guitar Books (1551-1555), facsimile edition, ed. James Tyler. Monaco: Éditions Chanterelle S.A., 1979.

Morlaye, Guillaume. Ausgewählte Werke für di vierchörige Gitarre aus “Le premiere livre” Paris 1552, facsimiles and guitar notation of selected pieces, ed. Helmut Mönkmeyer. Celle: Moeck Verlag, ©1984.

Mudarra, Alonso, Sämtliche Werke für die vierchörige Gitarre aus “Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela”Seville 1546, facsimiles and guitar notation, ed. Helmut Mönkmeyer. Celle: Moeck Verlag, ©1983.

______. Tres Libros de Música en Cifras para Vihuela (1546), facsimile edition ed. James Tyler. Monaco: Éditions Chanterelle S.A., 1980.

______. Tres Libros de Música en Cifras para Vihuela (1546), transcr. and ed. by Emilio Pujol in Monumentos de la música española, vol. 7 (1949).

Phalèse, Pierre. Selectissima Elegantissimaque Guiterna Carmina … (1570), facsimile edition. Hamburg: Tree Edition, ©2007. Introduction by Michael Fink.

Steven, Denis. The Mulliner Book: A Commentary. London: Stainer & Bell, 1952.

Ward, John M. “Sprightly & Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern and Guitar in 16th- and 17th-Century England,” The Lute 21 (1983). (Contains the 20 pieces for guitar in the Braye Lute Book, Osborne Collection, Yale University)

Books and Printed Articles

Bermudo, Fr. Juan. Declaración de Instrumentos musicales (1555).

Brown, Howard Mayer. Instrumental Music Printed Before 1600: A Bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965.

Cabello, José Carlos, “The Four-Course Guitar,” pamphlet article accompanying the CD Tabulatures de Guiterne, Michael Craddock, Renaissance guitar, Cantus C 9632.

Corona-Alcalde, Antonio. “Some Reflections upon the Vihuela, Bermudo and other Sundry Matters,” JLSA Newsletter 24/3 (1989), 6-17.

______. “The Vihuela and the Guitar in Sixteenth-Century Spain: A Critical Appraisal of some of the Existing Evidence,” The Lute 30 (1990), 3-24.

______. “The Viola da Mano and the Vihuela, Evidence and Suggestions about Their Construction,” The Lute 24 (1984), 3-31.

Dobson, Charles; Segerman; and Tyler, James, “The Tunings of the Four-Course French Cittern and of the Four-Course Guitar in the 16th Century,” The Lute, 16 (1974), 17- 23.

Fink, Michael. “The ‘Lost’ Guitar Pieces of Adrian Le Roy,” Lute Society of America Quarterly 43/3 (2008), 42-43.

Gill, Donald. “Vihuelas, Violas and the Spanish Guitar,” Early Music 9 (1981), 455-62.

“Gitarre,” in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 20 Bände in Zwei Teilen, ed. Ludwig Finseher. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1994, 1330-1394. (With bibliography)

“Guitar,”in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. (2001). (With bibliography)

Heartz, Daniel. “Parisian Publishing under Henry II à Propos of Four Recently Discovered Guitar Books,” The Musical Quarterly, 46/4 (1960), 448-467.

______. “An Elizabethan Tutor for the Guitar,” Galpin Society Journal, 16 (1963), 3-21.

Mavrinac, Robert. “The Guitar to 1700, Part 1,” JLSA Newsletter 20/2 (1985), 7-14.

McCutcheon, Meredith Alice. Guitar and Vihuela: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Pendragon Press, 1985 (=RILM Retrospectives 3).

Meucci, Renato. “Da ‘chitarra italiano’ a ‘chitarrone’: una nuova interpretazione.” In Enrico Radesca di Foggia e il suo tempo; atti del convegno di studi, Foggio, 7-8 aprile 2000, 37-57.

Tyler, James. The Early Guitar: A History and Handbook. London: Oxford University Press, 1980. (With bibliography to 1980).

______. “The Renaissance Guitar 1500-1650,” Early Music 3 (1975), 341-62.

______and Sparks, Paul. The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Present Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. (With bibliography to 2001)

Ward, John M. “Sprightly & Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern and Guitar in 16th- and 17th-Century England,” The Lute 21 (1983).

______. Music for Elizabethan Lutes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, Vol.1: Text; Vol. 2: Musical Examples. (Guitar music in the Osborn ms.: transcriptions and commentary.)

Wolzien, Charles, “Battle Music for the French Renaissance Guitar,” Guitar Review, No.54 (summer1983), 2-11; and No. 55 (fall 1983), 16-26.

Internet Published Articles

Fink, Michael. “Stringing and Tuning the Renaissance Four-Course Guitar: Interpreting the Primary Sources,” http://www.lgv-pub.com/Essays/Fink_-_Tuning_paper.pdf

Rebours, Gerard. “The Repertoire of the Renaissance Guitar,” http://g.rebours.free.fr/Gerard_Rebours.html